Principal System Architect - Industry Standards

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. 

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Job Overview

Data communications applications change at an exponential pace and the Data and Devices Business Unit is at the heart of a continuously expanding connected life. Accordingly, we provide responsive, iterative and fundamentally agile capabilities to support today's demands. Our customers are building the devices and the infrastructure that is redefining what information technology means. Our products push markets and meet the ever-changing need of the evolving, more connected, data-driven world. We are enhancing the way we do business, focusing on the most important things and staying agile and responsive to the needs of a faster, more connected world.

Are you a self-starter, an influencer and have a passion for evolving high-speed data communication technology? At TE Connectivity, you will find a culture that rewards such hands-on engineering spirit. We empower our engineers to work collaboratively supporting our customer’s next generation of high-speed data communication products. This is a great opportunity to join our team that is seeking a like-minded person to develop relationships with key technology individuals at customers to understand technology pain points and direction.

Short Description

What you will be doing…

As a system architect in our Digital Data Networks Business Unit, this individual will be focused on the computer, storage, artificial intelligence, and networking industry.  You will interface with customers in order to understand how their systems function and determine their evolving technology needs. In this role you will be expanding our presence and fostering relationships with key standards and organizations within the data center industry. You will be influencing the standards to help datacenter industry transition to next generation of product and technology.  This person is required to follow and help drive strategy both internally and externally at key industry communication standards.

As the System Architect, a typical day may include:

• Interfacing with key individuals from industry standards, consortiums, and other customers
• Identify and cultivate relationships with potential members, sponsors, and contributors of standards/consortium in the data center industry.
• Will be representing TE and supporting conferences, seminars, committee/working group meetings, and other standards-related work objectives.
• Identifying potential technology disrupters (which often requires expertise in various technologies)
• Integrating customer needs, datacom industry knowledge, and business insight to create compelling visions around technology and product trends that will drive the organization forward 
• Influencing executive leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to proactively invest in new technology and products to meet the next-generation needs of our customers and the market 
• Working within a small geographically dispersed system architecture team to share subject matter expertise and best practices
• Being an industry subject matter expert, collaborating closely with external customers as well as internal business development, strategy, and engineering development teams 
• Driving high-value development projects (hardware and high-speed signaling) that will require you to lead and interface with large groups
• Manage the technical cooperation with customers and coordinate TE’s internal development engineering team to assure technical and functional feasibility from the eyes of the customer.
• Ensuring we are following required industry standards while also helping to drive the strategy for new standards 

What your background should look like:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. Having a dual bachelor’s degree in business or an MBA is a plus
• Generally requires 10 years of relevant mechanical or electrical engineering work experience
• 5+ years experience in computing and/or networking industry system design and related technologies
• A minimum of 2 years of prior experience with influencing and contributing to a standards organization
• Ability to travel to attend and support conferences, seminars, committee/working group meetings, and other events related to the standards body.
• In-depth knowledge of hardware and associated signaling environments.  Technic